Syria conducted nuclear experiments: IAEA document

June 1, 2010 05:55


Syria has told the UN atomic watchdog about past nuclear experiments, but is still refusing to cooperate over allegations that it was building a secret nuclear reactor with North Korea’s help, a new report revealed Monday.

From Breitbart.com

In a restricted four-page report obtained by AFP, the International Atomic Energy Agency said that Syria “provided the Agency with information concerning previously unreported uranium conversion and irradiation activities” at a small research reactor in Damascus.

Syria insists the scale of the experiment was small, “involving tens of grammes of nuclear material” and took place in 2004.

A senior diplomat familiar with the IAEA investigation said it was too early to determine whether the experiments were purely of a small scientific nature, as Syria claimed, or part of wider, more extensive research.

At the same time, the IAEA complained that Syria had not cooperated with its investigation into allegations that Damascus had been building an undeclared reactor at a remote desert site called Dair Alzour until it was bombed by Israeli planes in September 2007.

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